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According to the patch notes from 1.8.3: "Fixed very small countries having their armies stuck in their home HQ when at war". So, i guess they fixed it.

Probably. I personally also like extra offense/defense, but player would certainly mostly try to get the best skills available, yes. That is what we do. :D I see two possible ways around this: 1. Make the player work for the good traits. Then they would feel like a deserved reward. 2. If you dont want certainty, give the player a way to massively impact the probabilities. Like 50% chance for your desired trait. Then there will be still some variance in traits. Otherwise the player can still reroll commanders 30 times. That would achieve somewhat equal results, but is way less fun. :)

Oh, there is an official world record? Is there a website for that? :)

@@DataTimelapses yes there is, its the speedrun website :)

I totally agree! But i haven't found a good way to farm loyalists in 1.8. I probably need to look deeper into movements, which should be the new source for loyalists.

Oh, interesting idea. At first, i thought "But then you risk getting a politician trait", but... since a character usually gets only 2 skill traits, you can make a general with two skill traits into a politician without the negative effects. Just to clarify: for more experience, it needs to be a powerful politician. I.e. head of state, heir or leader of an interest group with +20% clout. :)

@@DataTimelapses yes it could end up a double edge sword but if uhave +20 or 25% combat stats garanteed for an upcoming war its actually insane. Sometimes u could just force a war as gp like that and the other side cannot raise a good enough army to withstand a full attack. (if u activate companies and IG leader bonuses some cases its insane eg: france and Prussia

Thanks for sharing how the HoI System works, i didnt know. :) Well, the HoI System sounds better to me. Yea, do essentially that. Add "search for generals who are at least younger than 40." You might need to create 1or 2 empty "bad and old generals"-armies. Just to stash the bad material, so you get new generals. But the increased bureaucracy cost will mean next to nothing to a major or great power. And you probably need to recruit a fresh wave of generals about every, say, 15 years. So when the trained generals die of old age, a new generation is already prepared.

@@DataTimelapses Yeah the hoi4 system is better but I don't mind a simplified system in a game where warfare isn't supposed to a central part. Thx for the tips. Idk if I will implement them in multiplayer since I don't want other players to be forced to do those to be competitive.

The only way to know the exact commander level is searching your commander in the save file. But that is rather inconvenient. The best you can do in game is a worst case analysis: if the commander has one personality trait (3 points), one unlevelable skill trait (2 points) and one level 1 skill trait (one point), then he needs to be at least level 5. Personality trait=3 Smaller skill trait=+1 Needs to be at least one level higher to get a new skill trait => level 5 at least.

I don't know the HoI-System, but more interaction and a bit less randomness would be nice. Someone else suggest an improved system where your generals basically collect experience toward new traits, which would give more controll and less randomness. Sounds like a nice idea. :)

Infuriating

Paradox: "our players love war, let's put control of their armies in the hands of the famously good AI"

​@@max__pain Tbh, the system wouldn't be ass if PDX didn't hide most of the info that goes into the war and change the War Exhaustion.

All that to end up making one of the worst UI imaginable where you never get the info you want in a single tab and always have to cycle through 4 different tabs that are all accessible from different parts of the screen Truly the modern Paradox experience

Paradox: "lets give generals traits with bonuses in certain terrain but not make a terrain map mode"

It's an interesting idea but I think everyone would choose the same traits then

@@shadowfoxxie7182 I think the way to do it is to make it so that traits are earned over time based on their conditions, rather than randomly. First off, make the actual experience system in this video transparent. It's a really cool mechanic and it's so weird that it's hidden off for some reason. Then, for example, generals get traits based on their orders and armies. Having artillery in their battalion will mean they get more progress towards the Artillery Commander trait. Having lots of mobilisation options gives them progress towards the Supply Requisitions Expert trait. And so on

That sounds like a good idea! And a small button on a general which opens the "experience window" for a general, which gives an overview about the collected experience for each trait. :D

@@DataTimelapses quick question, do you know if historical characters start at a higher level?

Interesting thought, but i don't know. :)

Good idea, but i disagree on the first part, unless i missunderstood your comment. :) I had several test runs where the pan nationalists took over and i became a republic as two sicilies without owning even half of italy. Good point about the annexing part! I think paradox even removes radicals from countries which you annex through italian unification events to avoid annexation chains.

I think there is some potential for beeing faster. I think 1844 should be possible. If you go full RNGod or super save scum, you can probably make all italian minors into subjects and annex them super fast. Then i believe in 1843. :D Maybe even 1842, but that seems like a stretch. Faster should only be possible with a different method. Sardinia Piedmond is closer to researching nationalism, which is important, but they also have less man power than two sicilies.

Hey, thanks for the long reply. :) I noticed the treaty port thing as well, but i was unsure if that would somehow interfere with the unification by flagging lucca as treaty port instead of properly owning the province. Is that a thing? Or does it just become an ordinary province? At least at the current version of this strategy (it's like version 9 or something) beeing at war with lucca is helpful to gather conscripts. And i didn't know about lubeck. :) Becoming a major power as two scilies in 1836 is not a problem. If you build 10 line infantries, make the intelligentsia happy, use medium government wages and very high military wages, you are usually a major power by about august. But i totally forgot about major powers beeing able to form power blocs! At the very least, forming a sovereign empire would reduce liberty desire from subjects. If papal states or sardinia piedmont get to much liberty desire, they start lowering relations, which is really bad. Even getting only one nation as subject through the power bloc interaction would be helpful, since you get less infamy, which saves relations and there is less risk in wars/one less war. But a nation needs to be 5 years in a power bloc to be annexed. Haha, i also experimented with getting central banking early to bankroll, but researching two level 2 techs took way to long. There is definitivly potential in forming a power bloc! Very good idea. :) While it would be interesting to see how fast one could unify italy with every means available, i wanted to unify italy as an italian nation. I slightly changed the title to hopefully highlight that fact a bit better. :) Oh, i am usually total ignoring capitulation desire! I think i need to pay more attention to that value. Thanks for pointing that out.

I hope you are satisfied? :D While i think it was fast, it's probably not easy. I am still wondering if one could sacrifice one or two years to an more easy/reliable solution. :)

​​@DataTimelapses it was a good video, though I think it's better to directly annex rather than protectorate in most cases. In my own playthroughs I usually attack lucca, Tuscany, and try get defensive pacts with Austria and France. Then swiftly attack modena and Parma. Its usually possible to bait the papal states into a war or attack directly if they don't have a defence pact with Austria. It's only about 50 infamy to annex them entirely. From there you can usually peacefully unify with two sicilies.

I was also experimenting with the pan national fusion event, but whem you integrate into an nation with nationalism, you need to research again.

@@TiPiDablju uh, nice one! Mind sharing the main idea how you did that? :)

@@DataTimelapses I will share it on my channel later this week.

buddy no one asked

@@nd6274 i mean to be fair at the end he did literally challenge people to do better

That is true, i did! Because i was pretty confident and proud that i got a pretty good result. It was somewhat humbling that someone beat that result within the first 200 viewers. Well, pride goes before the fall, i guess. ;)

No, i didn't. Still guessing it's because i had more than 25% radicals when i researched nationalism, but it's still just a guess. :)

I am sorry, but i dont know of a good way to do it in 1.8.

does this still apply to patch 1.8.3?

@ram5ramen582 I played last on the 1.8.0 patch I haven't played on the latest yet so I can't say

@@mohammzahamza3148 alright good because the devs said they fixed migration in 1.8.3 as far as i know

When you write it out like this, oh this is why I love this game

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

yeah radicals don t help passing laws as far as i know, at the contrary

​@@unhommequicourtDepends on what they want. If you have a movement that's rising up, you can trigger the revolution by increasing taxes. Then lose to it, and you can get the aristocrats unseated.